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Discovery of the Tau Lepton Discovery of the tau lepton Sai Neha Santpur 290E Spring 2020 26 February 2020 <footer> 1 Outline ● World in 1974 ● Motivation to look for third generation leptons ● Discovery of the tau lepton ○ Mark I detector at SPEAR e+e- collider ○ Physics analysis ● Confirmation of tau discovery ● Tau research today Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 2 2 World in 1974 ● Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 3 3 Motivation for third generation of leptons ● Two leptons then: ○ Electron: m=0.5MeV, discovered in 1897 ○ Muon: m=105MeV, discovered in 1937 ● 1968-1974 time period ● The e-μ problem: ○ How does the muon differ from electrons? ○ Studies compared e-p vs. μ-p inelastic differential crosssections but did not show any anamolies. i.e. the muon interaction with hadrons was exactly similar to electron ○ Same is true for elastic scattering of e-p vs. μ-p ○ These results were not helpful in figuring out the differences between electron and muon ● Proposition(?): ○ May be there is another charged lepton out there that will explain what is different between electron, muon and this new lepton Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 4 4 Varieties of leptons considered ● Sequential leptons (tau like lepton) ● Excited leptons ● Paraleptons ● Ortholeptons ● Long-lived particles ● Stable leptons Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 5 5 How to search for sequential leptons? ● Searches in particle beams ● Production of new leptons by e+e- annihilation ● Photoproduction of new leptons ● Production of new leptons in p - p collisions ● Searches in lepton bremsstrahlung ● Searches in charged lepton-proton inelastic scattering ● Searches in neutrino-nucleon inelastic scattering - l Something like + l Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 6 6 e+ e- → ɣ →l+l- - l + l ● Final state: ○ l+ → e+ + neutrinos and l- → μ- + neutrinos ○ l+ → μ+ + neutrinos and l- → e- + neutrinos ● Advantages: ○ Allows search up to ml = beam energy ○ Detecting e+μ- or e-μ+ with any missing energy would be dramatic ○ Clean final state with no other background Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 7 7 Theory and other calculations.. ● Detailed calculations of cross sections and decay branching modes and ratios were available as of 1971. ● Refer to Phys. Rev. D4 2821 for detailed calculations Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 8 8 Theory and other calculations.. ● Detailed calculations of cross sections and decay branching modes and ratios were available as of 1971. Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 9 9 The discovery story ● The tau lepton was discovered using MARK I detector at SPEAR accelerator, SLAC in 1975 Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 10 10 SPEAR accelerator ● SPEAR used to stand for Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Rings ● It consists of a ring - 80m in diameter ● Electrons and positrons were circulated at energies up to 4 GeV (The dataset used for tau lepton discovery was at center-of-mass energy of 4.8 GeV) ● Two outstanding discoveries at SPEAR: ○ J/ψ (charmonium) in 1974 ○ Tau lepton in 1975 ● Since 1990, SPEAR is exclusively used for synchrotron radiation physics ● In fact it was the world’s first synchrotron radiation laboratory Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 11 11 MARK I detector ● Also known as the SLAC-LBL Magnetic Detector ● First detector to have 4π hermetic coverage around the interaction point ● Made out of many layers of different subdetector systems - Much like today’s ATLAS and CMS ● Operational between 1973 - 1977 ● J/ψ and tau lepton were discovered using this detector Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 12 12 MARK I detector Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 13 13 Charged particle detection ● Charged particle detection: ○ Used a 1.5 meter radius solenoid with 0.4 Tesla magnetic field ○ Cylindrical multiwire proportional chambers and spark chambers measure momenta and trajectories of charged particles ● Modern parallels: ○ Magnetic field ~ 2-4 T ○ Resistive plate, drift and thin gap chambers (think ATLAS muon detector) Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 14 14 ECAL and muon systems ● Electromagnetic calorimeter: ○ 24 lead-scintillator shower counters ○ Election ID: ■ Require that the shower energy be at least 0.5 GeV ■ Electron position in shower is determined by comparing pulse heights on photomultipliers at the two ends ○ Modern parallel: ■ ATLAS Lead-LAr electromagnetic calorimeter ● Muon chamber: ○ 20 cm thick iron flux return provides magnetic field for muon detection system (similar to today’s CMS experiment) ○ Spark chambers are used for muon identification Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 15 15 Object selection for the analysis ● Electrons: ○ Charged particle ○ Required to have large pulse heights in the shower counters in the calorimeter ○ No deposit in the muon chamber ● Muons: ○ Depost in the muon chambers ○ Shower counter pulse should be small ● Hadrons: ○ All other charged particles are hadrons ● Photons: ○ Neutral particle ○ Large shower counter pulse ● Neutrinos: Infer their presence using missing energy Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 16 16 Event selection ● Dataset: ○ center of mass energy = 4.8 GeV ○ 9550 three-or-more-prong events ○ A large(!) number of two prong events which include e+e- → e+e- , e+e- →μ+μ- , e+e- → two-prong hadrons and e+e- → e+μ- , e+e- → e-μ+ o ● Coplanarity angle Θcopl > 20 Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 17 17 Event selection ● Dataset: ○ center of mass energy = 4.8 GeV ○ 9550 three-or-more-prong events ○ A large(!) number of two prong events which include e+e- → e+e- , e+e- →μ+μ- , e+e- → two-prong hadrons and e+e- → e+μ- , e+e- → e-μ+ o ■ Coplanarity angle Θcopl > 20 to reduce e+e- and μ+μ- final states ■ After this cut, we have 2493 two-prong events ● Electrons and muons: pT> 0.65 GeV ○ Electrons with pT<0.5 GeV are misidentified as pions >50% of the time due to small pulse height ○ Muons need at least pT>0.55 GeV to make it to the muon chamber ● Results in 513 two-prong events <footer> 18 Feb 26, 2020 S. N. Santpur 18 513 two-prong events in categories ● Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 19 19 Background? ● Data: 24 emu events observed ● Can this be explained by any other known process? ○ e+e- →e+e-μ+μ- is a possible source but it is negligible ■ Claim: No. of emu events from this source with charge=+/-2 should be the same as no. of events in charge 0 eμ (Why?) Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 20 20 Background? ● Data: 24 emu events observed ● Can this be explained by any other known process? ○ e+e- →e+e-μ+μ- is a possible source but it is negligible ■ Claim: No. of emu events from this source with charge=+/-2 should be the same as no. of events in charge 0 eμ (Why?) ○ Hadron misidentification or decay ■ Use 9550 three-or-more prong events assuming each of e/μ was fake ■ Use P(h→b) : probability of a fake lepton b from a hadron h. Note that this probability is momentum dependent. ■ Use the eh,μh and hh events in table on Slide 19 to get hadron momentum spectrum ■ Final result averaged over momentum: P(h→e)=0.183+/-.007 and P(h→μ) = 0.198+/-0.007 Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 21 21 Background closure test ● Background estimation closure test: ○ To demonstrate that their misidentified backgrounds are estimated correctly, they apply same strategy to 1photon and >1photon category on Slide 19 ○ Below table shows that the closure test works eμ 1 photon channel eμ >1 photon channel Predicted background 5.6+/-1.5 8.6+/-2.0 (using same method) Observed events 8 8 Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 22 22 Final background yield ● Misidentified ee backgrounds 1+/-1 ● Misidentified μμ backgrounds <0.3 ● Misidentified hh backgrounds = 3.7 +/-0.6 ● Total background = 4.7 +/-1.2 ● Observed no. of events = 24 ● S/sqrt(B) ~ 5.1 Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 23 23 Event kinematics ● Electron and Muon momentum Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 24 24 Invariant mass2 vs. missing mass2 ● At least two particles escaped detection ● If it was only one particle, then we should see one peak in 2 Mi ● In the paper, they note that this could be 0 neutrons, KL mesons or neutrinos Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 25 25 Observed cross section vs. center-of-mass energy ● Integrating over all center-of-mass energies, ○ Total background = 22 ○ Total events observed = 86 ○ S/sqrt(B) ~ 4 Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 26 26 What could this new signature be? ● One explanation provided was pair production of heavy charged leptons (taus) ● Other one: ○ Pair production of charged boson with decays ○ Charm quark theories predict such bosons ○ They note that their mass (even if they exist) would probably be large enough that they won’t see it at SPEAR Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 27 27 Tau lepton confirmation ● In 1977, it was confirmed that this excess was indeed from a tau lepton ○ Observed excesses in e/μ events coming from ○ Excess in e-hadron events from Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N. Santpur 28 28 Tau research today ● Precision standard model physics ○ Example: ■ BR(Higgs →휏+휏-)~6% ■ Observed at ATLAS and CMS. Find the ATLAS result here ● Handle to search for beyond standard model physics ○ Given that taus are third generation leptons and the heaviest, it can be used to search for “new” physics ■ Example: Find a search for stau (scalar tau) particle predicted in many supersymmetric theories here Feb 26, 2020 S.<footer> N.
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